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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Harry Edward
Mason
May 15, 1939 – July 19, 2018
Obituary
Harry E. Mason was born May 15, 1939. A retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) executive, corporate president and graduate faculty member at the University of Kentucky, died July 19, 2018, in Clermont, FL at the age of 79, of natural causes. He was a native of Paducah, KY and lived in the Washington D.C. area, Rome, Italy and Winchester, KY before moving to Clermont. He was a graduate of the University of Kentucky and University of Maryland. His professional career included work in the private sector and academia in addition to a 35 year career in intelligence and foreign affairs. He served in overseas and domestic assignments for the CIA and was the senior CIA budget officer from 1976 to 1980. He was promoted to Deputy Director for Programs and Budget to oversee resources for the U.S. Intelligence Community and served in that position through 1984, during a period that brought unprecedented growth in intelligence capabilities. Mr. Mason held various senior positions at CIA in the Office of the Inspector General, Deputy Director for Financial Systems, Chief of Strategic Planning, and as the Office of Logistics manager, responsible for world-wide CIA facilities. He was the first Senior Intelligence Community Liaison Office at the U.S. Department of State from 1993 until retirement. He was awarded the CIA Certificate of Merit and the Intelligence Medal of Merit. He was Chairman of the Manassas, VA Planning Commission, a member of the Highway Safety Commission and Clermont Planning and Zoning Commission. He was selected to the Paducah, KY Tilghman High School Hall of Fame and was a Kentucky Colonel.
Survivors include his son Eric Mason of Florida and his sister Martha Sue Reeder of Alabama.
He was preceded in death by his wife Nancy Mason, parents Troy & Ella Mae Mason, daughter Laura Ellen Mason & his sister Mary Nell Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Mason's ashes will be buried with services held at a later date in Manassas, VA. (www.beckerfamilyfuneral.com [beckerfamilyfuneral.com])
Survivors include his son Eric Mason of Florida and his sister Martha Sue Reeder of Alabama.
He was preceded in death by his wife Nancy Mason, parents Troy & Ella Mae Mason, daughter Laura Ellen Mason & his sister Mary Nell Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Mason's ashes will be buried with services held at a later date in Manassas, VA. (www.beckerfamilyfuneral.com [beckerfamilyfuneral.com])
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